The number of kids on Crabs 2019 who will not qualify for this tournament is just a few. They will be close to full strength.
As you know each and every player makes a difference and that difference is what separates the great from the good and winning from losing. It doesn't matter if it's only one player the playing down in age is ridiculous and will be stopped soon.
If it's a grade based event with no age restrictions, then the Crabs (or any other club) is not "playing down". Whatever any event is, a team can be accused of cheating only if they are not following the rules.
Bingo! The rules from beach lax state that "placement on a grade based team...is dictated by the highest grade of any player on the team". With several 8th graders that would make them a 2019 team - this fact has been overlooked.
It was after school was out. So those kids who are holdbacks are in the class of 2020. They didn't break any rules.
School was not out for everybody in Maryland or in NY so the 8th grade graduates were playing actual 7th graders still attending classes. School years are identified as 2014/2015 etc. so until 2015/2016 they are not 2020s. Who decided that just because they graduated the week before they were automatically 2020 when they did not have a day of school as 2020s? They will be 2020 once school starts again which is sad enough but they were not for Beach Lax. They broke the rules AND were poor examples of sportsmanship.
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